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fruit and veg, how many portions a day do you eat?

Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
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wondering how many people get the magic 5 a day, missed it on breakfast TV BBC1 last week, James Wong saying you need to eat 10, a couple of years ago, it was 7.  Even when I was completely veggi for 20 years, found the portion sizes impossible.  Three tablespoons of peas, I would be full up, wouldnt be able to eat the rest of a meal.  I often have a fruit smoothy for breakfast, love a ploughmans for lunch, with an apple, or pear and blue cheese.Some days its toast or porridge, mac cheese for dinner, there would be no veg.  One of my friends got heated because I told her spuds dont count because they are carbs.
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Through the day I only eat fruit, except a yogurt for breakfast. So probably about 6/7 portions a day. 
    However, my mum never had fruit, she lived very healthy until 87. Dad was 92 so I eat what I enjoy not what ‘they’ tell me I should be eating, 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I often have a banana for brekkies, veg (of some sort) soup for lunch (salad in summer)followed by a piece of fruit eg pear, clementine, then meat or fish with 2 sorts of veg not counting potatoes. OH has potatoes or pasta or rice with dinner, I sometimes don't if I want to keep my weight down. The veg with dinner would be about 2 spoons peas and 2 spoons broccoli for example. I'm not sure how big a helping 5 a day is. But I couldn't eat something stodgy like macaroni cheese without a salad or maybe some roast tomatoes.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I don’t eat bread or potatoes, rarely pasta or rice, so mainly fruit and veg, and meat or fish. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No breakfast for me other than juice and coffee.   Lunch at home is usually a salad which will include my red salad with loads of red fruit and veg or a Waldorf salad or similar and a veggie fritata of some sort or home made veggie soup of some sort.   Dinner may be fish or poultry or meat with vegetables or salad depending on the season and there's usually one vegetarian dinner in the week.  

    Don't do potatoes very often but love sweet potatoes which do count as a veg and pasta is usually wholemeal.   Have lots of rices plus barley, whole spelt, couscous and quinoa but don't often bother with a "carb" element.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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  • bookmonsterbookmonster Posts: 399
    I can get six a day easy, but I don't usually count. I take a soup for lunch at work that is often one of my five a day, raisins on my cereal or porridge and at least 2 of my 5 a  day at dinner (remember tinned tomatoes and some tomato sauces count, as do pulses, including baked beans ), plus fruit snacks.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    a 'portion' for most things is about 80g. so ten portions would be 800g of food a day. I just couldn't eat that much. 10 different fruit and veg a day - no problem most days.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Toast or cereals for breakfast, soup or meat sandwich for lunch, coffee and biscuits in the afternoon and a cooked dinner of meat or fish and veg, potatoes and either peas beans or brassicas, and I will be 86 in 10 days time, not overweight and healthy as I have a fairly large garden and also walk at a local nature reserve 2 or 3 times weekly.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Easy answer: not as many as I ought to.
    Devon.
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    5 a day. I am sure each of those five peas is doing me a power of good  :D
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I saw part of that programme and James Wong was explaining that we have been calculating it all wrong. Take an apple it is not just one serving but counts as two, as I said didn't see all of it but you should include things like pasta sauce or baked beans because the tomato sauce counts for one. Potatoes dont count at all but sweet potatoes do. And I think he said carrots could be two to three depending on size , and a salad could be two of your ten a day. But that was all I saw.
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